(2:26 addition) Holy shit I just noticed that SDA has passed 4000 total demos in its database with this update! Only 1399 of them are records though :)

Hey, sorry for the delay in the demo update... I'll start off with the demos that have been sent in for the PG episode that we added last update:

• Daniel Hansson did the easy run of pg1 in 1:34.
• Mark Ferrer did the easy run of pg2 in 2:22.
• Martin Selinus improved Eva's easy run of pg3 by seven seconds to get 0:25.
• Daniel Hansson did the easy 100% of pg1 in 3:33.
• Mark Ferrer did the easy 100% of pg2 in 6:00.
• About an hour after he sent that in, I improved it to 4:23, 1:37 faster.
• We received several 0:09 demos for the EH of pg4, but Valeriy Burmistrov was the first, so get his demo here.
• Valeriy also did the nightmare run of pg4 in an amazing 0:07, matching Evan's easy run.
• Daniel Hansson did the nightmare 100% of pg4 in 0:28.
• Robert and Rickard Axelsson did all four coop demos on pg4... the easy run in 0:05, the nightmare run in 0:06, the easy 100% in 0:07, and the nightmare 100% in 0:15.

There's still lots of possibilities with these maps, folks! I was working on a marathon, but I was having some strange occurances related to cutscenes. If they happen to you, you just have to restart the demo for now, and I'll try to get them fixed.

Martin Selinus sent in two other demos, the only demos not on pg for this update.

• He improved Ilkka's old easy run of hip1m5 by one second to get 1:35.
• He also filled the hole for the easy 100% of Hit the Roof! in a time of 1:19.

Now I think its time to review some of the rules at SDA, not related to how to record demos... other rules. They were stated ages ago, but I dont think they are anywhere in the FAQ, so new people probably aren't aware of them.

• Always email your demos to sda or they probably won't get posted. That way everyone who does SDA updates will receive your demos.
• Include the demo name in the subject of the email, like "pg2_423". Dont send more that three demos at once unless they're very small.
• Dont send a demo if you're going to try to improve it right away.
• But dont wait several days, weeks or months (!) to send demos either.
• The text files are supposed to be a place where you can comment on the demo in some way... so try to do that. Stupid text files are fine in moderation, but they are quite annoying otherwise.

I guess that's about it. I hope that 2001 will be even better for speedrunning that 2000 was. It should be, after all the site was down at the beginning of this year, but not next year :)

Oh btw, it seems gamespy is incapable of keeping the one mirror that it managed to get for fileplanet, so for now you can only get demos from the gamespy ftp. (grr)

Ho' ho' holy shit this is one big update! Let's start out with the new demos shall we?

Single Player Demos

Jozsef Szalontai has blessed us with a couple of his demos.

• Nightmare run of Cult in 0:22, 1 second faster than Optic.
  
• Nightmare run of RWA1 in 0:25, 3 seconds faster than Daniels time.
  

Sergi Cami has delivered his own Christmas present to us, in the form of a Nightmare run through E1M1 in 0:25, 1 second faster than Ilkka's QdQwav time!

Juozas Rimas did an Easy run of Escape in 0:50 2 seconds faster than Warren's time.

Cooperative Demos

Obviously the MP clan went overboard with their Christmas gift to SDA, sending in 18(!!) mad-coops!

• 5-p Nightmare 100% of E1M1 in 0:39, 7 seconds faster than the 2p.
• 6-p Easy 100% of E1M2 in 0:33, one second faster than the 3p.
• 5-p Easy 100% of E1M3 in 0:45, two seconds faster than the 3p.
• 5-p Easy 100% of E1M4 in 0:44, two seconds faster than the 2p.
• 4-p Easy 100% of E2M5 in 0:43, three seconds faster than the 3p.
• 5-p Easy 100% of E2M5 in 0:39, four seconds faster than the 4p on the previous line...
• 4-p Nightmare 100% of Badland2 in 2:38, 52 seconds faster than the 1p.
• 5-p Nightmare 100% of Badland2 in 2:35, 3 seconds faster than the 4p :-)
• 5-p Easy run of Critters in 0:16, one second faster than the 2p.
• 5-p Nightmare run of Critters in 0:16 as well.
• Then they went crazy on the hotel map, even though there's only *one* spawnpoint, they did the Easy 100% in:
  • 0:28 with 3 players.
  • 0:27 with 4 players.
  • 0:26 with 5 players.
  • 0:25 with 6 players.
• And then they did the Nightmare 100% in:
  • 0:41 with 3 players.
  • 0:31 with 4 players.
  • 0:29 with 5 players.
  • 0:28 with 6 players.

New Level Pack - Phantasmal Garrison

Nolan and I have been working very hard on getting the Quake level pack Phantasmal Garrison ready for speed-run use. Nolan has even coded a version of QdQStats for use with this level pak, fittingly titled PGStats. Sorry, but I couldn't resist making some speed-runs for these new levels :)

• Easy run of PG3 (before stats) in 0:32.
  
• Easy 100% of PG3 in 2:19, just a table filler.
  
• Easy run of PG4 in 0:07.
  
• Easy 100% of PG4 in 0:10.
  
• Easy/Nightmare run of PGEXIT in 0:06, optimum time.
  

You can download Phantasmal Garrison and the PGStats for it all in this one archive.

New Playing Type Added!

Head-on over to the Quake done Naked site and take a look at the new play-type just added!

New Dzip page

I have been working on a more professional Dzip page for quite some time now. We are intending to take Dzip beyond it's 'only Quake use' and maybe even compete against Winzip! The site is a little low on content right now, if you have any ideas you think would be helpful to the site then please contact me.

I can't think of anything to write so I'll just post two new marathon records.
I did a NH through ep3 in the blistering time of 12:49, which is 117 seconds faster than Justin's previous record, and only 118 seconds slower than qd100qr :)
Jozsef Szalontai did a NR throught ep3 also in a time of 4:40, which is 70 seconds faster than ShiNe's previous record.
Merry Christmas everyone!

• UPDATE 4:37 PM
  
• I just recieved another marathon in my mailbox. Thought I might as well post it along with the others.
  
• Sergi Cami did the NR of ep1 in only 3:22, 11 seconds faster than ShiNe.

Dmitry's demo has been removed from the Rotw page. 'nuf said.

Yup, the results for ROTW 10 are out. Please hang on while I sort out the details for ROTW 11 before posting it up.

Well, there seems to be no Optic demos for this update (maybe he got a life?). Be sure to check the Quake done Naked page in the next few days, I'm adding a new type of play to the tables! Also, some new profiles for you all.

Single Player Demos

Nolan Pflug has found time to run some very excellent D1M7 runs!

• Easy 100% in 2:34, 6 seconds faster.
  
• Nightmare 100% in 2:58, 13 seconds faster then Nolan's invalid 3:11.
  

Martin Selinus (baby Horvath) has done a couple great demos.

• E1M6 Easy 100% in 0:48, improving Ilkka's record by 1 second.
  
• Hit the Roof Easy run in 0:36, improving Daniels time by 10 seconds.
  

Daniel Hansson did a couple of runs to.

• Jdungeon Easy 100% in 0:54, two seconds faster than Marlo.
  
• Jdungeon Nightmare 100% in 0:54, 12 seconds faster than his old record.
  

Stefan Schwoon is still alive! And he found time to fill in the Nightmare 100% of mcm01 with a time of 3:16.

Cooperative Demos

Martin Selinus and Sebastian Olsson have done some very excellent coops!

• E1M6 Easy 100% in 0:27, two seconds faster than Marlo and Fabian.
  
• E2M2 Easy 100% in 0:42, four seconds faster than Marlo and Fabian.
  
• E3M1 Easy 100% in 0:41, two seconds faster than Marlo and Fabian.
  

Carl and (ehh there was another player in this demo?!?) Johan have done a Nightmare run of E2M4 in 0:47.

Robert and Rickard reclaim their Easy-run record of E2M7 by getting a 0:32, one second faster.

I've done my very first coop with Basil de Vries (the naked runner)! We did a Nightmare 100% of H1M2 in 1:57, new to the tables.

Mr. Horvath does it again. Another flawless demo containing various difficult tricks, including a voreball jump and yet another double-voreball jump to finish the demo with!!!! As he says himself "This demo speaks for me" and my oh my it certainly does. It simply doesn't get any better than this.
(well, except for the upcoming Qd100Ql2 which will contain even cooler demos :) So grap a chair, put yourself in a nice comfortable position, turm the speakers up and watch the god damn demo. NH of e4m2 in 1:17 Oh, and check out the recammmed demo too for another blast :)

Come on you guys...how hard can it be? Keep those profiles coming and don't forget about the pics too (check out Jesse's pic....) We've got a descent amount already though. We even received one from a veteran speedrunner too.
On to the demos:

Justin's usual amount:

• Mexx8b EH in 3:07, 9 seconds faster than himself.
• Mexx8b EH in 2:56, once again 11 seconds faster than himself.
• Mexx8b NH in 4:28, 38 seconds faster than Richard.
• Mexx8b NH in 3:06, 82 seconds faster than himself, that's like 9:18 minutes faster than Matthias original record!!!
• Epoch ER in 0:58, 2 seconds faster than Ken. Very cool demo indeed - check it out.

Others demos:

• Badland2 EH by Daniel Hansson in 2:56, 3 seconds faster than Carl.
  
• Numb Nimbus (czg4) ER by Evan Wagner in 0:44, 4 seconds faster than Marlo - Cool run
  
• Return To Phobos (d1m7) EH by Nolan Pflug in 2:40, Table filling.
  
• He also did the NH just a few minutes before this update 3:11, Table filling.
  
• Escape ER by Warren Hammond in 0:52. 2 seconds faster than Justin.
• He also did the NR in 0:59. 9 seconds faster than Justin.

Coops:

• The American Trio did the EH of h1m1 in 0:36. Table filling.
• They also did the EH of h1m3 in 0:51. Table filling.
• Evan and Justin did the EH h1m3 in 0:58. 4 seconds faster than Nolan & Justin.
• They also did the EH of h2m2 in 1:47. 7 seconds faster than Nolan & Justin
• Nolan and Optic the NH of h2m4 in 1:52. Table filling.
• Daniel and Daniel did the EH of Badland2 in 2:30. 2 seconds faster than the one Johan and Carl did 2:32
• Johan and Carl did the ER of e2m7 in 0:33. Table filling.
• Johan and Mark did the EH of Hotel in 0:34. Table filling.
• And as the last demo for today we have a demo from Robert and Rickard on the newly released Hit The Roof map 0:40. Table filling.

Damn this update took forever. But I'm sure I'll be faster with time :)
And remember to keep those profiles coming. Homework is no excuse, neither is laziness!

Finally - Player Profiles at SDA.....full biography for every speeder who has a record at sda, and there will even be some of the veteran runners like Yonatan & Perkele (I hope). But to start with we have a full load of 7 profiles to show you guys. It's just typical questions in general like: favorite demo, favorite trick, your age, name, residence, quake settings, your hardware, music taste etc...but there's also questions like what score you got in the Quake Purity Test (I didn't do too good in that one) and most annoying monster....they even include pictures too :) Check it out and feel inspired.

So come on everyone, submit your profile, don't be shy, we won't laugh at your looks :)

Grap the form from this link

Just letting you know that I changed the HTR pak a little bit and reuploaded it. It fixes the movie not playing (doh), the exit leading nowhere, and I added some intermission points. You dont really need to get it, but if you plan to make demos on the level, then you should.

There are other demos, but I'm just posting the easy run of HTR that Daniel Hansson did in 0:46.

If you used to visit Mineral's page, then you know he had lots of contests with weird twists. One of the maps involved a ... 180 degree twist. The contest was just to do an easy run through the map. Well I recently I decided to fix up the map, getting rid of all the bugs it had, and now I'm adding it to sda!

The name of the mape is "Hit the Roof" and it is e1m1 turned upside down. Unfortunatly, because of the extensive changes to the maps, the previous runs at Mineral's contest can't be used, and they'll have to be redone. One thing that delayed the map release a bit was that I wanted to make sure I had done the nightmare 100% of the map before posting it. I finally got it yesterday, in a time of 2:03. So download this upside down map right here and try to do the runs!

Thanks for the help Evan :)

My demos:

• Bbelief 6 easy 100% in 2:23, 8 seconds faster than Alex.
• Bbelief 6 nightmare 100% in 4:30, 1:47! seconds faster than Stefan.
• Bbsecret nightmare 100% in 2:27, 17 seconds faster than Stefan.
• Mexx 4 easy 100% in 2:40, 6 seconds faster than Fabian.
• Mexx 5 easy 100% in 3:04, 11 seconds faster than Mr. J.

Demoz by others:

• Epoch easy run by Ken in 1:00, 1 second faster than Optic.
  
• Base easy run by Ken in 0:36, 1 second faster than Optic.
  
• Bad2 easy run by Daniel Hansson in 2:33, 2 seconds faster than his previous record.
  
• Bad2 nightmare run by Daniel Hansson in 2:37, 5 seconds faster than his previous record.
  
• RDE nightmare marathon run by Daniel Hansson in 17:31. That demo was pretty bad so he improved it to a nice 11:54.
  

The c00pz:

• Evan and I did an Easy 100% of Bbelief1 in 0:56, 11 seconds faster than Evan and Nolan's time. (1:40)
• Evan and I did an Easy 100% of Cdespair in 1:22. (2:06)
• Evan and I did an Easy 100% of Lostworld in 1:28. (2:49)
• Evan and Nolan did an Easy 100% of r2m2 in 1:02. (1:46)

Quit bugging me while I update, you know who you are...

Results for ROTW #9 are out! ROTW #10 has been posted! Go to the ROTW page for the details! (Addition from Nolan: since Gerald seems unable to post the demos, I got the winning demo from Peter

Update: All the demos are are now available here (check out Peter's recammed demo). I missed out 3 runs earlier, so the results have been updated. Also, I clarified a bit on the rules for ROTW #10. You have to activate "sv_gravity 100" before coming out of the water.

Since Pug and Evan are too lazy to update, i got it covered.

Make sure to check out Blue Hell Done Quick. A nightmare run & easy 100% through Blue Hell!

Here's all of my demos: (Only 4 this time)

• Mexx 7 easy 100% in 4:22, 48! seconds faster than Mr. J.
• Mexx 7 nightmare 100% in 4:55, 1:52! seconds faster than Matthias.
• Mexx8b easy 100% in 3:16, 45! seconds faster than Matthias.
• Mexx8b nightmare 100% in 6:13, 6:11! seconds faster than Matthias. Almost cut this demo in half :).

Daniel Lindberg is back!:

• Bnt easy run in 0:45, 2 seconds faster than Marlo.
• Crucible easy 100% in 1:21, 28 seconds faster than Matthias.
• Pse1 easy run in 0:35, 1 second faster Ilkka.
• Pse2 easy run in 0:47, 10 seconds faster than me.
• Pse2 nightmare run in 0:56, 4 seconds faster than me.
• Pse2 easy 100% in 1:57, 17 seconds faster than Nolan.
• Pse3 easy run in 0:23, 2 seconds faster than me.
• Pse3 nightmare run in 0:26, 12 seconds faster than me.
• Trr nightmare run in 0:21, 1 second faster than Jozsef.

Demoz by others:

• Daniel Hansson did the nightmare run of badland2 in 2:42, 1 second faster than me.
• Daniel Hansson did the nightmare 100% of Jdungeon in 1:06, 2 seconds faster than Matthias.
• Daniel Magnusson did the nightmare 100% of e1m5 in 1:38, 1 second faster than his previous record. A few days later he got 1:32. <--- Get this one.
• Ken did the easy run of Mexx8b in 0:21, 1 second faster than Marlo.
• Jozsef Szalontai did the Cult easy run in 0:22, 1 second faster than me.
• Jozsef Szalontai did the Phallusy nightmare run in 0:28, 2 seconds faster than Sergi. Damn, get this one :).
• Juozas Rimas did the Damaul3 easy run in 1:33, 2 seconds faster than his previous record.
• Juozas Rimas did the Damaul3 nightmare run in 1:32, 4 seconds faster his previous record.

Jzblue demoz from Blue Hell Done Quick:

• Robert Axelsson did the easy 100% of Jzblue 1 in 0:16, 4 seconds than Marlo.
• Robert Axelsson did the nightmare run of Jzblue 1 in 0:13, 1 second faster than Marlo.
• Martin Selinus did the easy run of Jzblue 2 in 0:10, 1 second faster than Marlo.
• Martin Selinus did the easy 100% of Jzblue 2 in 0:13, 4 seconds faster than Marlo.
• Sergi Cami did the nightmare run of Jzblue 2 in 0:11, 1 second faster than Marlo.
• Martin Selinus did the nightmare 100% of Jzblue 2 in 0:19, 6 seconds faster than Valeriy.

Finally, the coops:

• Evan & I did the easy 100% of Darkness in 1:02. (1:39)
• Evan & I did the easy run of Mexx10 in 1:23. (2:18)
• Nolan & I did the easy 100% of r2m5 in 2:12. (3:24)
• Evan & I did the easy 100% of Underworld in 1:30. (2:02)

It's rather difficult and slow updating high... :)

We have lots of new demos for you today, mostly from me :).

Heres all of my demos: (I own Evan & his mama)

• Ikspq2 nightmare 100% in 3:21, 18 seconds faster than Ilkka.
• Mexx10 nightmare run in 3:57, 2:17! seconds faster than Matthias.
• Mexx10 nightmare 100% in 5:52, 1:51! seconds faster than Matthias.
• Mexx9a easy 100% in 2:27, 12 seconds faster than Ilkka.
• Mexx9a nightmare 100% in 4:19, 33 seconds faster than Ilkka.
• Mexx9b easy 100% in 4:41, 1:09! seconds faster than Matthias.
• Mexx9b nightmare run in 3:32, 48! seconds faster than Mattias.
• Mexx9b nightmare 100% in 7:54, 2:46! seconds faster than Mattias.
• Pse3b easy 100% in 1:03, 8 seconds faster than Marlo.
• Pse4 easy 100% in 3:04, 14 seconds faster than Marlo.
• Pse4 nightmare 100% in 3:38, 26 seconds faster than Stefan.

Other single player demos:

• Daniel did the easy run of Badlands 2 in 2:35, 2 seconds faster than his previous record. Run a better map please, or maybe you need better skillz :).
• Martin did the easy 100% of e2m2 in 0:59, 1 second faster than Markus. <--- Omg owned.
• Martin did the easy 100% of e2m5 in 1:23, 3 seconds faster than his previous record. <--- Owned again.
• Qurre did the long easy run of e4m5 in 0:57, 1 second faster than Attila. The next day he improved it to 0:56
• Juozas did the nightmare run of Funrun in 0:52, 2 seconds faster than me.
• Shine did the nightmare marathon run of Episode 1 in 3:33, 17 seconds faster than his previous record.

On to the Coops:

• Daniel & Daniel did the easy 100% of Badlands 2 in 2:38. (2:59) Badlands 2 again? Do u guys suck that much?.
• Daniel & Danial did the easy run of Coopmine in 1:30. (1:31) One second faster than the single player time... not owned.
• Daniel & Daniel did the easy run of Critters in 0:17. (0:19)
• Daniel & Daniel did the easy 100% of Jdungeon in 0:42. (0:56)
• Daniel & Daniel did the nightmare 100% of Jdungeon in 0:43. A few days later they got 0:42. (1:08)
• Daniel & Simon did the nightmare run of e4m7 in 0:54. (0:55)

Damn, we have too many Daniel's these days...

ROTW #9 has now been posted! Go to the ROTW page to check it out! Also, the demos for ROTW #8 have also been made available. Sorry for the delay.

Results are up at the ROTW page! Congratulations to the winner Daniel Magnusson! Thanks to everyone who participated.

ROTW #9 will be posted soon. Look out for it!

Just a note that my FTP will be unavailable until sometime Sunday evening.

Dzip 2.3 has been released! Download the new version here. Below is a list of the new features, and here's a screenshot.

• Added expandable pak files, now you can see all the files inside a pak and extract them individually
• Fixed sort problems when path column was on
• Fixed problems with selection box not always being used correctly
• Added 'ignore path info' to Actions->extract dbox
• Fixed problems with F2 to rename files
• Added new options and put in an Options dbox instead of checkable menus
• Added an uninstall

Single Player Demos

• Martin Selinus improved Markus's easy 100% of E2M5 by 2 seconds to get 1:26.
  
• Thomas Stubgaard improved Martin's nightmare 100% of E3M2 by 9 seconds to get 1:25.
  
• Justin Fleck improved Janne's easy 100% of IKSPQ4 by 19 seconds to get 2:17.
  
• Justin Fleck improved his old Nightmare 100% of IKSPQ4 by 35 seconds(!) to get 5:37.
  
• Justin Fleck improved Marlo's Nightmare 100% of IKSPQ5 by 21 seconds to get 2:53.

Cooperative Demos

• Optic and I improved our HIP1M3 run by 1 second to get 0:41. (0:48)
• Optic and I did an easy 100% of BC2 in 0:54. (1:03)
• Optic and I did a nice easy 100% of BUB2 in 0:20. (0:36)
• Optic and I did an easy run of cdespair in 0:32, 1 second faster than Josh and Warren's time. (0:46)

Since I have a lot of free time on my hands, as seen from the amount of demos I make, I might as well update SDA too :).

Heres all of my demos: (Evan ownz me)

• Armageddon 2 nightmare 100% in 2:14, 14 seconds faster than Marlo.
• Azerette nightmare 100% in 4:23, 1:21! seconds faster than Matthias.
• Black 2 nightmare run in 1:03, 6 seconds faster than Mads-Peter Stubgaard.
• Black 2 nightmare 100% in 1:42, 21 seconds faster than Mads-Peter Stubgaard.
• Bubbah's Slate easy 100% in 0:36, 7 seconds faster than Matthias.
• Bubbah's Slate nightmare 100% in 0:37, 4 seconds faster than Matthias.
• The Comm Center nightmare 100% in 2:31, 56! seconds faster than Mattias.
• The Black Crypt nightmare 100% in 1:50, 18 seconds faster than Mattias.
• Liquid Despair easy 100% in 1:49, 12 seconds faster than Thomas.
• Liquid Despair nightmare 100% in 2:51, 42! seconds faster than Mattias.
• Darknite nightmare 100% in 2:28, 32! seconds faster than Mattias.
• The Darkness Within nightmare 100% in 2:02, 46! seconds faster than Mattias.
• Empedokles Domain easy 100% in 2:27, 3 seconds faster than Marlo.
• Funrun nightmare run in 0:54, 1 second faster than my previous record.
• Ikspq5 easy 100% in 1:51, 6 seconds faster than Ilkka.

Other single player demos:

• Juozas did the easy run of Damaul3 in 1:35, 8 seconds faster than Marlo.
• Juozas also did the nightmare run in 1:36, 31! seconds faster than Marlo.
• Jozsef did the nightmare run of e2m6 in 1:14, 2 seconds faster than his previous record.
• Thomas did the easy 100% of Eyesock in 1:21, 13 seconds faster than Marlo.
• Evan did the easy 100% of h1m4 in 1:30, 11 seconds faster than my previous record.
• Sergi did the easy marathon run of Episode 2 in 3:49, 4 seconds faster than his previous record.

On to the Coops:

• Evan and I did the easy 100% of Azurette in 1:37. (2:12)
• Evan and I did the easy run of BBelief 3 in 0:35. (0:49)
• Evan and I did the easy 100% of Black 3 in 1:17. (1:27)
• Evan and I did the easy 100% of The Comm Center in 1:15. (1:59)
• Evan and I did the easy 100% of Damaul3 in 1:38, 20 seconds faster than Carl and Johan. (2:32)
• Evan and I did the easy run of h1m3 in 0:42. (0:48) Check this one out :)
• Evan and I did the easy 100% of h1m4 in 0:58, 3 seconds faster than me and Nolan. (1:30)
• Nolan and I did the nightmare 100% of h1m4 in 1:38. (2:15)
• Nolan and I did the nightmare 100% of h2m3 in 2:23. (4:21)
• Evan and I did the easy 100% of h2m4 in 0:56, 2 seconds faster than me and Nolan. (1:46)
• Evan and I did the easy 100% of Rust in Peace in 1:19. (2:03)
• The American Trio: me, Nolan, and Evan did the easy 100% of h2m3 in 0:57, 16 seconds faster then the 2p. (1:42)

Remember, the only way to speed run is while being high :). Get your favortite bowl and start running!

Note from Nolan: dont listen to him... oh and I still did half the work for this update.

Note from Evan: I'd rather be smokin' some weed with Ilkka and Justin.

Quite a few runs have been submitted, all of them looking pretty good. Good route planning rather than good bunnying will win this ROTW, from what has been seen so far. Without going too much into the details of the runs I've seen so far, I can say that there are two main different strategies used in this ROTW, the grenade launcher route and the nailgun route. Both seems to be pretty even at the moment, and the competition has so far been pretty close and hot. So keep working on the runs!

Just a few clarification of the rules. Yes, kills which occurs during the intermission do count. You start from scratch (of course... that was a really dumb question, you know who you are). Demo naming convention, Please use this convention: rotw#-name.dem e.g. rotw8-tangent.dem

Here's a brief plan on how the Run of The Week will be conducted. New ROTW contests will be announced by Friday of Week 1. Over the weekend, a few runs will be submitted and I will post some general commentaries (no details about results and routes) sometime during Week 2. The deadline for demo submission will be the Monday noon Pacific Time of Week 3. This allows for two weekends of speed-running. Results will be posted as soon as possible after that and the new contest will appear by Friday night.

Hey everyone, I know demo updates have been sparse and I apologize for that, but it is evident that my ftp's "not posted yet" section has been usefull since some of the demos in this update have already been improved :)

Here's all the demos on easy skill:

• Sergi Cami improved Markus's easy run of e2m4 by one second to get 0:41.
• Carl Tholin improved David's run of mexx9b by eight seconds to get 2:39.
• Carl improved Matthias's 100% of mexx10 by exactly one minute to get 3:29.
• Juozas Rimas improved Optic's run of blister by six seconds to get 0:40.
• Marlo Galinski imporved Juozas's run of damaul3 by six seconds to get 1:43.
• Marlo did the 100% of desout in 1:40, new.
• Juozas improved Optic's run of funrun by two seconds to get 0:52.
• Optic improved Matthias's 100% of funrun by 24 seconds to get 1:54.
• Optic improved his previous 100% of gatordiv by 19 seconds to get 3:42.

That's all the single player easy demos, now for the nightmare ones:

• Martin Selinus improved his previous long way run through e1m6 by two seconds to get 0:28.
• Martin improved Aleksander Osipov's previous long way run through e4m5 by two seconds to get 1:01.
• Martin impproved Optic's previous run of empire by one second to get 0:21.
• Juozas improved Optic's run of evilpool by one second to get 0:07, and that is most certainly not ever getting improved.
• Carl improved my long way run through polygon2 by three seconds to get 0:22.
• Martin improved Kare's 100% of e3m2 by nine seconds to get 1:34.
• Marlo improved Thomas Bergendorff's 100% of alpha001 by three seconds to 1:02.
• Marlo filled the whole for the 100% of desout, getting a time of 1:47.
• Optic improved Stefan's 100% of erotique by 17 seconds to get 1:31.
• Optic improved Matthias's 100% of escape by 20 seconds to get 1:34.
• Optic improved Matthias's 100% of evildead by 48 seconds to get 2:15.
• Thomas Bergendorff improved Optic's 100% of eyesock by 11 seconds to get 1:24.
• Optic improved Stefan's 100% of fatalplace by 47 seconds to get 4:08.
• Optic improved Matthias's 100% of fire by 38 seconds to get 1:55.
• Optic as you can see still has no life, since he's been doing all these nightmare 100%s...
• Optic improved Matthias's 100% of foon by 50 seconds to get 2:05.
• Optic improved Matthias's 100% of funrun by 24 seconds to get 1:54.
• Optic improved Matthias's 100% of gatordiv by 52 seconds to get 3:51.

And that's all the sp nightmare demos.... mostly optic :)

And here's all the coops, with few exceptions all were done by the 5 people who have been doing the most coop lately. As usual, the single player times are in parenthesis for comparison.

• Optic and Evan did a nightmare 100% of e2m4 in 2:06. (2:31)
• Martin Selinus and Robin Kuivinen did an easy 100% of e3m2 in 0:35, seven seconds faster than the previous one by Marlo and Fab. (0:59)
• Optic and I did an easy 100% of hip1m4 in 1:01, six seconds faster than the one I had done with Warren. (1:41)
• Optic and I did an easy 100% of r1m4 in 1:27. (2:50)
• Evan and I did an easy 100% of r1m6 in 1:41. (2:40)
• Optic and Evan did an easy 100% of ikspq2 in 1:23. (2:03)
• Optic and Evan did an easy 100% of ikspq3 in 1:20. (1:59)
• Carl and Johan did an easy 100% of black2 in 0:47. (1:16)
• Evan and Cameron did an easy 100% of rd1m2 in 0:47, eight seconds faster than the previous one by Marlo and Fab. (1:22)
• Carl and Johan improved Optic and Evan's easy 100% of alpha001 by one second to get 0:27.
• Evan and Optic quickly struck back and got a 0:26. :) (0:57)
• Optic and Evan did an easy 100% of arma2 in 0:53. (1:26)
• Carl and Johan improved the previous easy 100% of badland2 by four seconds to get 2:44. (2:59)
• Optic and Evan did an easy 100% of bnt in 2:06. (2:41)
• Carl and Johan improved their previous easy run of bub2 by one second to get 0:12. (0:13)
• Carl and Johan did an easy run of colony in 0:28. (0:29)
• C & J did an easy run of commctr in the same time, 0:28. (0:33)
• O & E ran damaul3 in 0:13 on both easy and nightmare.
• C & J improved them both to get 0:12 though :) easy - nightmare. (1:43 / 2:07)
• C & J also did an easy 100% of damaul3 in 1:58. (2:32)
• C & J did an easy 100% of desout in 1:13, (1:40) and a nightmare 100% in 1:26. (1:47)
• O & E did an easy 100% of fatalplace in 1:49. (3:09)
• C & J did an easy run of ih1m2 in 0:21, (0:39) and an easy run of ih1m4 in 0:15. (0:29)
• O & E did an easy 100% of ih1m4 in 1:06. (1:48)
• The american trio, me, Optic and Evan, did a few more three player mad coops:
  • Easy 100% of e1m8 in 0:35, nine seconds faster than the 2p.
  • Easy 100% of e2m5 in 0:46, 10 seconds faster than the 2p.
  • Easy 100% of e2m6 in 1:51, 47 seconds faster than the 2p.

Surprised to hear from me? Thought I was dead? Well, I'm back! And with a new job scope as well, taking care of the Run of the Week! Joy and happiness for everyone!

There are a couple of changes I'm implementing to ROTW though, first of all, it will now be fortnightly, not weekly (but the name will not change). Secondly, all run submissions should go to me at tanget@pq (obviously). Thirdly, QdQStats MUST be used on all runs submitted.

Alright, let's get on to the new ROTW. Here are the rules:

1. Map to be used is E2M1
2. Skill 3 (Nightmare)
3. You must exit the map in 0:45.99999 (i.e. the time elapsed at the intermission should show :45 or less)
4. Winner of the ROTW is the player who achieves the most kills at the end of the map.
5. If there is a tie, the player exiting earlier will be declared the winner
6. Deadline is Monday 20th November
7. Good luck!
8. Members of the Qd100Qlite2 team are banned from ROTW until Qd100Qlite2 is completed
9. Just kidding about rule #8

Hey its 4:15 am and I figured I'd do an update before going to bed, plus I've been making Evan do em lately and figured I'd give him a break :)

• Juozas Rimas improved Marlo's easy run of damaul3 by six seconds to get 1:49.
• Arturo Lasca imporved Optic's old easy run of empire by one second to get 0:21.
• Optic improved his easy funrun run by one second to get 0:54.
• Optic improved Chris's easy run of gibplex by one second to get 0:27.
• Optic improved also improved Chris's easy 100% of gibplex, getting 0:55, three seconds faster.
• And he did the nightmare 100%, in 0:55, 11 seconds faster than Matthias.
• He improved Marlo's easy 100% of gor1 by five seconds to get 2:14.
• Carl Tholin improved Daniel's easy 100% of badland2 (the map with the boring 2 minute wait) by five seconds to get 2:59.
• Jozsef improved Esa's easy 100% of phallusy by 32 seconds! The new time is 1:16 and contains lots of boosts.
• Jozsef also did phallusy's nightmare 100% in 1:18, 6 seconds faster than his previous.
• Thomas Bergendorff further improved the nightmare 100% of e1m4 to get 2:37, five seconds faster.
• Optic and I did a nightmare 100% of hip1m3 in 1:32.
• Evan and I did two rogue easy 100%s, r1m5 in 1:54, and r2m1 in 2:36.
• Optic and Evan did both 100%s on the critters map, getting 0:33 on easy and 0:34 on nightmare.
• Optic, Evan and I did some three player coops this past week, first doing a nightmare 100% of e1m6 in 0:33 (10 seconds faster than 2p)
• Next we did an easy 100% of hip2m2 in 1:22. (32 seconds faster than 2p) Check out these routes!
• Finally we did an easy 100% of hip3m1 in 0:49, (12 seconds faster than the 2p)

Congrats to Carl-Lloyd Parker for being the official 200k'th hit!

The Quake done Naked page has been updated with the first naked coop :) More people need to start submitting naked demos! I know it's awkward to be naked in Quake at first but once you give it a good try it's actually quite fun.

It turns out there were some stupid bugs in the new dzip... like when you go to extract a .pak file it will either crash or also extract all of the files within the pak file. Plus the progress bar in extract was messed up. So get v2.21 from here.

Well, we are almost at 200,000 hits! And it feels like we have that many demos for you today.

Single player demos

Justin Fleck did the usual amount, as always picking on Marlo:

• Easy 100% of gordian in 2:04, 12 seconds faster than Marlo's time.
  
• Easy 100% of hellbase in 1:49, 27 seconds faster than Matt's time.
  
• Easy 100% of grc4beta in 2:03, 6 seconds faster than Marlo's time.
  
• Nightmare run of gor1 in 1:12, 9 seconds faster than his old record.
  
• Nightmare 100% of gordian in 3:00, 25 seconds faster than his old time.
  
• Nightmare 100% of hellbase in 1:52, 21 seconds faster than Matt's time.
  
• Nightmare run of houstrps in 0:44, 10 seconds faster than Nolan's time.
  
• Nightmare 100% of houstrps in 2:07, 38 seconds faster than Nolan's time.
  

Daniel Hansson did some badland2 demos, he needs to stay off the crackpipe though (refer to his .txt's):

• Easy run of badland2 in 2:37, 2 seconds faster than his previous time.
  
• Easy 100% of badland2 in 3:04, 4 seconds faster than Matthias's time.
  
• Nightmare 100% of badland2 in 3:30, 5 seconds faster than Matthias's time.
  

Marlo Galinski did a couple of demos, focused on Optic of course.

• Easy 100% of Networld in 1:32, improving Optic's time by 4 seconds.
  
• Easy 100% of pb1 in 1:56, improving Optic's time by 3 seconds.
  

Peter Stubgaard did a Nightmare 100% of black2 in 2:03, 4 seconds faster than his previous time.

Kip Werking owned Optic beyond comprehension with his Easy run of gordian in 1:27, 3 seconds faster, good job Kip!

Daniel Magnusson did a Nightmare 100% of e1m1 in 1:11, 1 second faster than his previous time.

I did an Easy 100% of Epoch in 1:45, 8 seconds faster than Thomas's time.

Thomas Bergendorff did a Nightmare 100% of e1m4 in 2:42, 1 second faster than Peter's time.

Cooperative Demos

What's more confusing than Stefan explaining Linux and more attractive than Gerald in a thong? Mad coops, and they're back!

• Nightmare 100% of E1M2 in 0:43, almost didn't make the fiend telefrag. (Nolan, Evan & Justin)
  
• Nightmare 100% of E1M3 in 0:57, good watching for the whole family. (Nolan, Evan & Justin)
  
• Easy 100% of HIP2M4 in 0:45, nicely timed routes for all of us. (Nolan, Evan & Justin)
  

Justin Fleck and I did a couple of runs:

• Nightmare 100% of E4M1 in 0:55, I can't wait until we get to LAN.
• Easy run of houstrps in 0:26, 4 seconds faster than Johan and Carl's demo, owned.

Nolan Pflug and Justin Fleck did a couple of coops to:

• Nightmare run of R1M3 in 0:18, cool demo.
  
• Easy run of R1M3 in 0:18, yet another cool run.
  

Cameron Engles and I did an Easy 100% of E4M8 in 2:39, the zombies were tough to get.

Nolan Pflug and I had to do a Nightmare 100% of E1M6 in 0:43, despite the lag, we did good.

Peter Horvath and Attila Csywhatever did a nice Easy 100% of E2M4 in 0:59, 16 seconds faster than Marlo and Fabian's time.

Max Rebo and lodis did an Easy run of d1m7 in 0:31, 3 seconds faster than Robert and Alexander's time.

Hey everyone, I finally finished v2.2 of dzip. The following are the major new features/fixes:

• Dragging out to explorer.
• No more infinite error loops on bad dz files.
• Optional Type and Path columns.
• Many small fixes/changes.

You can download it from the dzip link above or just use this to go straight to the download. The *nix versions will be posted later tonight once Stefan makes them.

I know the demo updates are sparse but that's why I sent up that ftp remember? It doesn't seem to be getting that much use... it has like 75% uptime despite what the demo.pl script leads you to believe.